There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

The structure of the bar elevator is four thick pillars standing around it, with a circular platform in the center.

The four pillars are not solid structures, but hollow with steel bars crossing them. Perhaps for aesthetics, you can see a lot of colorful lights and shaky English characters hanging on them.

Climbing this structure is not too difficult, especially since the people here are trainers who have experienced the journey.

With good physical fitness and the help of the vines of Serpentine and Bulbasaur, the few of them quickly climbed to the top and reached the 5th floor.

The 5th floor is of great importance as it is the power plant of the entire ship, so it is closed and only for use by crew members.

Even Xiaoxia was not familiar with this area and could only give a rough direction based on the model she assembled.

Perhaps the Rockets, who were disguised as crew members, forgot to lock the door when they left in a hurry, so Xiao Ye and his team did not encounter any obstacles when entering the 5th floor.

But the dark environment and unknown direction still became a big problem for them.

Feeling the ground shaking more and more beneath their feet, everyone knew that the speed at which the sea water would spread would definitely be faster than the speed at which they searched for the power room. There was not a single moment of time to be wasted here.

"Let's split up, two people each responsible for one direction. Whoever finds it first will shout loudly."

Xiao Gang gave a suggestion and pointed to the passage in front of him, "I'll take Meow Meow through here, you guys make your decision quickly."

After saying that, he grabbed the confused Meow Meow and took a big step forward.

"Go to the right."

The people who had already started to form groups stopped making noises and almost simultaneously raised their eyes to look at the person who made the noise.

Even Xiaogang and Meowth, who had run a few meters away, turned back and looked at Kitazawa Reiyuu in confusion.

“I was lucky enough to be a part of the St. Annus’s activities before, a visit when she was moored in the city of Mampura.”

Kitazawa Lingyou explained calmly, "The purpose of that event was to let more people know about the internal structure and infrastructure of the St. Ann, so it was fully displayed to the passengers, even the bedrooms where the crew rested and the captain's room were no exception."

"So to say..."

Xiaoxia's memory flashed back and she recalled a funny thing from her childhood.

At that time, she seemed to have seen the news on TV, and she cried and begged her sisters to take her to Manpura City for a tour and sightseeing on the St. Annus.

But when I think about it, I know it's impossible. My parents had just left and the entire burden of life fell on my three sisters.

The inspection of the Pokémon prosecutor, the doubts of the city residents, the cherry blossoms that have not returned home for a long time...

Later, in order to appease the young and ignorant Xiaoxia, Mudan and Iris had to use the few Alliance coins in the family and ask someone to bring back a miniature model of the Saint Annun from Vermilion City for their sister.

The already harsh environment became even more difficult to endure, but fortunately, Sakura immediately interrupted her journey of training after hearing the news, rushed back home overnight to support her young family of several children, and founded the famous Hualan Performance Studio in Kanto.

Back to the topic, after hearing Xiaoxia's words, everyone felt extremely fortunate, and Musashi and Kojiro almost hugged each other and cried.

Although they are also members of Team Rocket's operatives, this mission has always felt very strange to them.

Whatever news reached them was always delayed, they were never called to any meetings regarding any action, and all actions were taken at short notice.

If they didn't believe that the big guys of Team Rocket would never remember small minions like them, they would really suspect that they had offended the big guys and were now hated by them.

"Follow me, it's a long way around here, don't fall behind."

After saying that, Kitazawa Lingyou took the lead and led the others to act.

After about ten minutes, the noise around them suddenly quieted down a lot, and nothing could be heard except the messy footsteps of a few people.

"It's so quiet. I have a bad feeling..." Xiaoxia whispered, "You should all know that cliché plot, right? The calm before the storm. The safer I am now, the more nervous I feel."

"Pah, pah, pah, this is too unlucky, isn't it?" Xiaozhi raised the back of his hand to wipe the sweat on his cheek and forced a smile. "I have come this far. I am only one step away from leaving. My luck won't be so bad."

"I hope so."

Xiaoxia raised her hand to wipe the bangs that were stuck to her forehead, and unconsciously fanned the air with her right hand.

"Is the temperature here too high?"

Xiaoye's clothes were stuck to his back. The loose clothes now wrapped around him like a bag and kept tightening, making him feel like he was on the verge of suffocation.

"Now that you mention it..." Ash took off his hat and fanned himself and Pikachu, "It does seem a bit hot."

“Be prepared for the worst.”

Kitazawa Lingyou frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "There are many large machines in the power room. If they malfunctioned and exploded during the commotion just now, there might be a fire."

As he spoke he finally stopped and placed his hand on the door handle in front of him.

The abnormally high temperature was transmitted from the door handle to the palm of his hand, and the stinging pain made his heart sink.

Press down the door handle and everything in the power room will appear before your eyes.

A raging fire rose from the ground and wrapped around the large machinery under their feet. The bridge connecting the two sides was broken, and the distance of more than ten meters was daunting.

The large machinery engulfed in flames began to wail continuously, and along with the explosions loud enough to burst the eardrums, the fragile bridge beneath their feet began to shake violently.

At this moment, they could no longer tell whether the entire ship was shaking or just the power room. Countless flames soared into the sky with the help of the explosion. When the flames were about to lick Xiaoxia who was sitting on the ground, they fell back because of the insufficient distance.

Xiaoxia quickly retracted her calves that were accidentally exposed outside the bridge and climbed up in fear.

"Is there no other way? We can't get through here!"

Xiao Gang shouted while pinching his throat. The explosion just now had left him with tinnitus for a long time. At the moment, he couldn't even hear his own voice and couldn't adjust the volume at all. He could only shout at the top of his voice.

"Only this one."

Two voices sounded at the same time, Kitazawa Lingyou looked around, and Xiaoxia stood up with the help of Xiaozhi.

"You have to go here to get there. Other sections of the road are blocked by power outages, seawater and debris!"

The vine snake standing on Xiaoye's shoulder tentatively stretched out its vines and tried to hook onto the door frame opposite to build a path, but the vines were eroded by the flames before they stretched out far, and it quickly retracted them.

"No, the vine whip can't reach the other side." Xiao Ye held the vine that the vine snake had not had time to completely retract and observed it. After finding that it was only slightly burned, he let go, "The fire is too high!"

Xiaoxia clenched her teeth, thousands of thoughts flashing through her mind.

It is absolutely impossible to put out the fire. If the large machinery under their feet has been burned by fire and then refined by water, the explosion may directly overturn them!

But if the fire is not put out, the grass-type Pokémon will not be able to build a road. Isn't this a dead end?!

"Whatever it is, don't just stand there like an idiot, meow!" Meow Meow screamed, "Think of a solution quickly, meow!"

"Gon, Onix!"

Xiao Ye roughly estimated the distance and pointed at the inverted door frame opposite and shouted.

"Try to see if you can reach the other side with Onix!"

Xiaogang was stunned. He took out the Poké Ball with a look of surprise on his face, but the next moment his face suddenly turned pale.

"No, the distance is too far..."

"Let Onix try. Your Onix is ​​the biggest one I've ever seen!"

Xiaozhi urged. He never liked to just linger in place without making any attempts.

"No, no matter how long my Onix grows, it never exceeds ten meters. It is still within the normal growth range of Onix. Probably only an Onix like my father can reach that."

A few drops of sweat dripped from Xiaogang's temples. He didn't know if it was caused by the hot environment or the cold sweat of anxiety?

"Uncle Takenō's Big Rock Snake!"

Xiaoxia's eyes lit up, and she quickly took a big step to squeeze next to Xiaoye, pointing at the Ditto in his arms.

"Although we don't have the original, Ditto can copy it!"

Ditto seemed to hear someone calling him in a trance. He opened his eyes dazedly and saw his trainer's slightly worried face and Misty's excited expression.

"Can Ditto's current body still transform?" Xiao Ye asked in a low voice. "We need to get through here. Can you transform into Uncle Wu Neng's Onix?"

Ditto's body felt very uncomfortable at this moment, as if there was a layer of fog in it, or a layer of gauze covering it.

It was not until Xiaoye repeated this sentence three or four times that Ditto's dull brain finally processed the information, and it got up from Xiaoye's arms, gasping for breath.

At this moment, Ditto fell to the ground like a puddle of mud. Just transforming, something that was ingrained in his bones and almost became an instinct of his body, required him to breathe heavily. He lay on the edge of the broken bridge and rested for a long time before he began to transform.

After a while, Ditto transformed into Onix and used his teeth to hold the platform opposite, creating a path for everyone.

"Thank you, Ditto."

Xiao Ye stepped onto Ditto's body and quickly ran through the path that Ditto had created for everyone with his body.

He ran while yelling, urging Team Rocket, who were standing there hesitantly, at the top of his lungs.

Ditto's physical condition is very bad now. Xiaoye, who just held it, couldn't tell whether the continuously hot forearm was due to the continuously warming environment or Ditto's continuously rising body temperature!

Therefore, every minute and every second of the transformation is gained by Ditto overdrawing his own body. He doesn't know how long Ditto can last, so he can only urge everyone to move forward quickly.

Kitazawa Reiyu, Xiaozhi and others followed Xiaoye's footsteps without hesitation, and in less than half a minute, all of them had crossed the sea of ​​fire beneath their feet.

But when they turned around to wipe their sweat, they found that Team Rocket was still standing there, unmoved.

“So high… so hot…”

Kojiro's legs were shaking, his voice was trembling, "I can't do it anymore... I can't make it..."

"Musashi, meow! You guys go first! Don't worry about me!" Kojiro wailed and knelt on the ground to prepare himself mentally, "You guys go first, I'll catch up in a bit."

"Come here quickly!" Xiaozhi frowned and couldn't help but yelled, "Do you want to stay on this ship forever? Come here in a hurry!"

"It's so high..." Kojiro was filled with fear, and the shouts of Xiaozhi and the others were blocked out.

He could not overcome his psychological fear and could only tremble his legs to urge Musashi and Meowth to walk faster.

"Go quickly, give me a little more time..."

Snapped--!

The crisp sound of the slap and the stinging pain on his cheek made Kojiro sober up for a moment. It was at this moment that he saw Ditto's trembling rock body and Musashi's angry, red face.

"What are you talking about?"

Furious, Musashi grabbed Kojiro's collar with one hand and lifted him up. She looked at Kojiro, but Kojiro turned his head slightly and could not look her in the eyes.

Seeing this cowardly look, Musashi became angry. With the raised right hand, more slapping sounds echoed in the power room, which for a moment drowned out Xiaozhi's voice.

“Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid…!”

Every time Musashi uttered a word, his right hand swung down from the air mercilessly.

"If we stay here, we will definitely die!"

Musashi took a deep breath, suppressed his inner fear and stared at Kojiro fiercely, forcing him to look at him.

Wasn't she afraid? Wasn't she afraid of the flames spreading beneath her feet? Wasn't she afraid of being buried in the sea?

However, when she wanted to retreat, she saw Kojiro's unfocused eyes behind her, and no matter how great her fear was, she carefully hid it without showing it at all.

When a team faces a crisis, at most one person can retreat out of fear, confusion, and fear.

The rest of the people must try their best to keep calm and not be infected by fear, while trying to calm the emotions of their frightened companions.

This was the advice given to Musashi by several excellent seniors when he was in the Rocket Team concentration camp.

Not only them, but also the instructor that Musashi met in the selection competition. Such a cold-blooded and ruthless person also taught "Never give up your companions" in the last lesson of graduation.

She is Musashi, the Musashi of Team Rocket, the mainstay of their team!

"White Hole, a white tomorrow awaits us! We must not stop here, understand?!"

Musashi shouted almost against Kojiro's face. She looked at Kojiro's tearful eyes and slowed down her tone. She also restrained her strength and almost supported Kojiro's body in a half-hug, while holding his hand tightly.

"Relax, Kojiro. Trust me. Let's go together, okay?"

"Musashi..."

Kojiro's tears burst out, wetting Musashi's collar.

He bent down and hugged the waist of the woman next to him, crying, "Don't leave me! I'm so scared!"

"Okay, okay, I won't abandon you." Musashi whispered softly.

Who knew that one day the word gentle would appear on her! If it weren't for the purpose of crossing this rock bridge together, she wouldn't be so patient with this burden!

Well...well, he's not really a burden, he can still be useful sometimes.

Consider it compensation for accidentally losing his gas cartridge, yeah, that's it.

While Musashi was thinking wildly, he moved with Kojiro and stood in the middle of the rock bridge.

"Don't look at your feet, just follow me. We're halfway there, we'll be there soon!"

"Uh-huh!"

Another half a minute passed, and Xiaozhi's outstretched hands finally reached Musashi and the other man. Just as he was about to pull them over, something strange happened!

The continued fever and dizziness completely overwhelmed Ditto. It could no longer hold on to the edge of the platform, and it lost strength and turned back into its original form, falling from a high altitude.

"Variable monster!"

"Ojiro, meow!"

Fortunately for Musashi, she was so agile that she stepped onto the platform the moment she lost weight.

But the problem is Kojiro who is so scared that he has no strength left, and Meowth who is willing to stay behind to protect them!

There is also Ditto who is completely exhausted and almost fainted!